CONSERVATIVES ON TV

CONSERVATIVES ON TV; A Time-Honored Weapon

Published: February 21, 1993

To the Editor:

Walter Goodman's characteriza tion of Rush Limbaugh's audience as the "raving right" exposes him as one who "just doesn't get it."

When Mr. Limbaugh skewers liberal pretensions and explodes their utopian fantasies, his targets react by denigrating him as anti-intellectual and as one who "does a lot of multicultural trashing." They don't try to answer his arguments; they just indulge in name-calling.

And what's wrong with Mr. Limbaugh using ridicule as a weapon? Greek culture was the richer because Aristophanes didn't hesitate to use it against the pretensions of Socrates.

In this age of "political correctness" and attempts to thwart unpopular speech, Mr. Goodman should welcome the voice of an irreverent Rush Limbaugh. DONALD HAVERSTROM Commack, N. Y.